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2020 - 2021 School year??
By: David M. Katz Date: July 30, 2020, 2:45 pm
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Have BCS, BSSD, and the various colleges your gang attends made
any sort of plans about opening for the 2020-21 school year? I
know this will impact many of your boys as well as you. Is
doing it all on-line an option? If BCA opens will you still
agree to be present in person?
These are indeed trying and confusing times.
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: Zyngaru Date: July 31, 2020, 7:29 pm
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I don't know about Bransom, but here, things change every other
day, so there really isn't a final decision on anything yet.
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: Jack Date: August 3, 2020, 8:09 am
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And Zyngaru's comment is pretty much why I delayed responding to
this.
All my college boys will be going back, though that is a greatly
reduced number after the mass graduations of last spring. They
are all following similar programs with more classes spread over
more time and almost all classes will be 'hybrid' meaning a lot
of the material like lectures will no be available online.
BISD and BCA have currently delayed school openings until after
Labor Day.
Social distancing is simply not possible, because the schools
aren't built with that kind of space in mind. The best answer
I've seen is running school four days a week, but with half the
students being Monday/Wednesday and half being Tuesday/Thursday,
using Friday as an 'office day' for students who need help, and
keeping half the students home on any given day. Of course, I'm
sure you understand the political pressure from the
science-deniers who just want schools to be day care so parents
can get back to work.
At this point, I personally need to not be home schooling, but I
will if the return to school doesn't look safe to me.
And since I'm updating; I'll say that my adult kids who just
graduated are currently living in some of my apartment
buildings. They are looking for jobs, but some fields are more
responsive than others right now, so they're all working for me
- I have enough going on to keep them busy and justify paying
them enough to live on at least.
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: kalico Date: August 3, 2020, 4:52 pm
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Our s hook are looking into the same as your and I'm ok with
that for now. Good luck to you grads and the job search
Hugs kal
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: db105 Date: August 3, 2020, 4:56 pm
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Well, to be fair, you don't need to be a science denier to find
it a serious logistical difficulty if you need to go to work and
you have no one to leave the kids with...
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: Jack Date: August 4, 2020, 5:03 pm
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[quote author=db105 link=topic=1946.msg19339#msg19339
date=1596491789]
Well, to be fair, you don't need to be a science denier to find
it a serious logistical difficulty if you need to go to work and
you have no one to leave the kids with...
[/quote]
True. However, it's not the science supporters who rushed the
country into reopening while we were still in the midst of the
first wave of the virus,and now are setting new records for
hospitalizations and deaths as we head towards 200,000 deaths
without having achieved the goal of the lockdown in the first
place. But, if there were any questions, we already have some
schools opening and some summer camps, where we've already seen
mass infection and how bad it can spread.
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: afinch Date: August 4, 2020, 5:37 pm
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Years ago, I was working in the ER. A notoriously bad and
stupid EMT brought in a patient who'd been in a motorcycle
accident. The patient had an open fracture of his elbow. He
had not had his neck immobilized at the scene, but said EMT had
applied a tourniquet for the open fracture--which wasn't
indicated, and which was inappropriately applied, since the
patient had a pulse in his wrist.
I politely asked her about it (which was difficult, because I
just wanted to scream). "I was just trying to save his arm".
"Fat lot of good that'll do him if he's paralyzed from a broken
neck". She complained to her supervisors, and I got written up
for "being mean" to the clueless moron. BTW, she became a
paramedic after being fired from the police department--after
cuffing her partner instead of the burglar he'd tackled, as said
burglar ran away laughing....
"You don't need to be a science denier to find it a serious
logistical difficulty if you need to go to work and you have no
one to leave the kids with..." reminds me of that argument. And
45's reaction to Fauci and Birx remind me of administration's
response to me.
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/> We were then. It's only gotten worse.
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: Kat Date: August 6, 2020, 4:19 pm
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=1946.msg19326#msg19326
date=1596460178] Of course, I'm sure you understand the
political pressure from the science-deniers who just want
schools to be day care so parents can get back to work.[/quote]
Jack's point is valid. One can understand the desperation of
parents, but we're seeing science denial from politicians as a
justification to open schools. For instance, yesterday, Facebook
removed a Trump post for the first time. The reason? He falsely
claimed that children are immune to covid-19.
Kat
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: afinch Date: August 6, 2020, 7:36 pm
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Yes, I totally understand that. I also understand better than
most people, I think, that children as well as their adult
caretakers--parents, grandparents, and teachers--will die as a
result of desperation and denial. And those denying and
demanding the loudest will be the very first to seek out a class
action attorney when this goes horribly wrong, as we are already
seeing happen.
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Re: 2020 - 2021 School year??
By: Zyngaru Date: August 7, 2020, 3:12 pm
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As of right now. School starts here on Monday. They delayed it
a week to get things set.
The classes are half size. That way desks can be spread out.
Bag breakfast and lunches. Breakfast and Lunch are eaten in the
classroom, so no using the cafeteria. Each child is escorted
into the school one at a time and taken to their classroom.
They have to wear masks. They have to have two extra masks at
school. No using the water fountains. Each child is to bring a
personal water bottle for using when thirsty. A drink bottle
for eating lunch.
I'm sure there are many other rules also, that's just the ones I
know of.
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